Celebrity Chatters

Well, Amazing Race fans, it’s that time of year again when Americans looking for adventure — and their 15 minutes — team up and bound across the globe looking to win the title of. . .um, race winner? The 13th season premieres on Sunday, September 28 and while it’s fun to watch each week to find out who is victorious, the game is also captivating because of the team relationship dynamics. So, who are the new folks willing to put their friendships/marriages/engagements/etc. on the line? Click “Start” and find out!

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Tuesdays are big in entertainmentville: Not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores, including iTunes. So I take a spin through each week’s iTunes music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. Here are today’s selections:

A little rock: I added this album from The Walkmen to my list of must haves for August because I’m a fan of their dark, boozy rock — but I know they can be an acquired taste. The new album, You & Me, has already won me over with singles like “In the New Year” and “Postcards from Tiny Islands.” This album might not be the biggest deal of the year but I remain a fan and am definitely adding this to my iTunes library.

Earth to music lovers!: Yippee! New Dandy Warhols is finally here and their sixth album Earth to the Dandy Warhols is getting some mixed reviews. Rolling Stone says the album is a “misstep” while the Guardian calls it their “most self-assured set yet.” What to make of such diverging opinions? Well, it will always be difficult for them to top “We Used to Be Friends” in my heart but we’ve all agreed that “World The People Together (Come On)” is great, and this other new track called “Love Song” is totally sweet (I think I hear banjo!). So, we’ll have to judge for ourselves but honestly, I’m already sold.

Two more singing ladies, so

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• They’re not going to allow TV critics to screen the 90210 spinoff in advance, and at least one critic thinks this makes perfect sense. — Popwatch
• Bands based on Harry Potter And Twilight pave the road for future movie-inspired rockers. — MTV Movies Blog
• A new Danish sitcom, The Terror Cell, follows the lives of terrorists conspiring in Denmark. Yeah, sitcom. — CitizenSugar
• Anna Faris has a lot to say about being producer, creator and star of House Bunny. — E!’s Lyons Den
• Check out a newer, longer, juicier trailer for the next season of Heroes. — TV With MeeVee
• Here are the top 10 TV faces to watch this Fall, according to one blogger. — TV Addict
• There’s a brand-new track by TV on the Radio, available for your ears. — Stereogum
• Daniel Radcliffe is going nude in a Harry Potter movie?! — Cinematical

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Today EW is reporting that Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas recently met with Kristen Bell to discuss the possibility of bringing Veronica Mars to the big screen. He’s a very busy man these days, that Rob Thomas, and he says he’d have to wait until his new shows are off the ground before he could concentrate on a film version of VM, but he reportedly said, “as soon as I have any free time, that’s my top priority.”

Kristen Bell seems to be on board for it, though she doesn’t like to think about VM too much because, she says, “it really does make me sad.” At the mention of a possible movie, she smiled and said, “We’ll see.”

What do you think of this news? Crazy awesome, or just kinda crazy? And if you would like to see it, what kind of plot could you envision for this?

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Awww! Talk about cute overload. The video for My Morning Jacket’s “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 2″ (which is on their latest album, Evil Urges) is so insanely adorable and fits so well with the song, I can feel the cold cockles of my heart gradually warming. The video follows a super cute, wide-eyed fuzzy-wuzzy as he chases fireflies around the forest, trying to capture them for himself. But then he finds out what happens when someone wants to take away all the light.

I was just talking about my favorite videos of the year earlier today, and this one is definitely joining the ranks. This video actually makes me like this song a lot more. You should watch it, especially if you’re in need of a sweet little pick-me-up, so

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Every other Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

I’m glad you were all as enthusiastic about recasting Working Girl as I was — it’s such a great, classic film that I could watch over and over again. There were so many creative ideas it’s hard to know where to start, but the first one that I got a huge kick out of was lilprisci’s idea for Jeremy Piven to play Tess’s boyfriend Mick.

I also think Baluk is right on with suggesting Vince Vaughn for the skeevy Mick as well; I can already see him in one of those dirty white tank tops yelling to Tess, “Babe! Wait! Don’t run out on me. She doesn’t mean anything to me!”

As for Tess, I think Reese Witherspoon, despite her all-American girl-next door charm, could pull off that role, as redsilkshoes suggested. When you think about it, Legally Blonde is a fairly similar plot: good-looking girl no one takes seriously who has the last laugh. I also loved Rancher’sGirl’s suggestion for Penelope Cruz in that role because I think Cruz exudes a similar sex appeal as Melanie Griffith. And both Rancher’sGirl and paperdoll had the same excellent idea for Katharine: Halle Berry.

But as you know, I could only choose one winner and I went with the one whose idea for Jack Trainer I could not resist: congratulations, littlesnipsnap!

To see who littlesnipsnap chose, along with a new cast photo,

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From playing foul-mouthed studio exec Les Grossman to the historical figure Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to. . . superhuman comic book character? Apparently, Cruise is looking to hop on the comic book movie bandwagon with an adaptation of the DC Comics/Wildstorm comic Sleeper, with Sam Raimi producing. Reuters has more details:

Written by Ed Brubaker with art by Sean Phillips, Sleeper, which ran from 2003 through 2005, centers on an operative whose fusion with an alien artifact makes him impervious to pain. An intelligence agency places him undercover in a villainous organization and falls for Miss Misery, a member of the group.

Cruise is eyeing the starring role, and Warner Bros. hopes to make it into a franchise.

Ah, but who would play this Miss Misery?

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All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to the selections below you can also check out the fourth season of House, Street Kings starring Keanu Reeves, and the HBO movie, Recount which I chatted about with Citizen here.

Gossip Girl: Season 1
Try to ignore for a moment that nobody on that DVD cover looks like a character I recognize from the show. Am I right? That is some wacky Photoshopping there. But anyway, the first season of Gossip Girl is now out on DVD so you can get your collection started and catch up if you haven’t seen all the episodes. I’m sure some of you will appreciate this as the CW was not great about putting all their episodes on the Web, especially during the latter part of the season, so you may have missed some pivotal episodes.

I’m excited to relive the early GG days — especially the pilot — but I’m most looking forward to the special features. They include unaired scenes, featurettes titled “The Beginning, XOXO: Concept to Execution,” “Gossip Girl Couture,” “A Gossip Girl Wedding,” and “LOL: Gag Reel.” The DVDs also include music videos from The Pierces. How sweet is that?

Three more good ones, so

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